Citrix Confirms Password-Spraying Heist of Reams of Internal IP

UPDATE Digital workspace and enterprise networks vendor Citrix has concluded its investigation into a 6TB data heist in March, which it said was the work of international cybercriminals who exploited weak passwords on an internal network. The attackers intermittently accessed Citrix’ infrastrucur...

Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement

Motherboard got its hands on Palantir's Gotham user's manual, which is used by the police to get information on people: The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives. The...

Helping survivors of domestic abuse: What to do when you find stalkerware

We’re going to talk about something different today. We’re going to talk about domestic abuse. Earlier this year, cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab announced that the latest upgrade to its Android app would inform users about whether their devices were running stealthy, behind-the-scenes...

Ransomware: A Persistent Scourge Requiring Corporate Action Now

A ransomware attack on Belgian airplane manufacturer ASCO this week is the latest in a string of incidents that show the unique danger lurking in this type of malware campaign. The rise of ransomware has cost companies millions to remediate – both in making payments and in system restoration and...

A week in security (June 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we rounded up some leaks and breaches, reported about Magecart skimmers found on Amazon CloudFront CDN, proudly announced we were awarded as Best Cybersecurity Vendor Blog at the annual EU Security Blogger Awards, discussed how Maine inches closer to shutting down...

FBI Releases Article on Protected Voices Campaign

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the Protected Voices initiative designed to mitigate the risk of cyber influence operations targeting U.S. elections. As part of the initiative, FBI offices are coordinating with political campaigns at the local, state, and federa...

Online graphic-design tool Canva hacked; 139 million accounts stolen

By Uzair Amir Canva has contacted the FBI to investigate the data breach. Canva, an online graphic-design tool website operated from Australia has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of over 139 million registered users has been stolen - The breach took place on Friday, May 24...

A week in security (May 6 – 12)

Last week on Labs, we discussed what to do when you discover a data breach, how 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy, the top six takeaways for user privacy, vulnerabilities in financial mobile apps that put consumers and businesses at risk, and in our series about vital infrastructure, we...

North Korean Hackers Using ELECTRICFISH Tunnels to Exfiltrate Data

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS and the FBI have issued another joint alert about a new piece of malware that the prolific North Korean APT hacking group Hidden Cobra has actively been using in the wild. Hidden Cobra, also known as Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace, is believed to...

U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker For 2015 Anthem Data Breach

The United States Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his hacking team member for their alleged role in the 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant Anthem and three other unnamed American companies. Fujie Wang 王 福 杰 and another hacker named John Doe...

Excerpts from “5 Questions for Eric O’Neil—the FBI “ghost” who brought down a Russian Mole”

Eric O’Neill serves as Carbon Black’s national security strategist where he is a thought leader on a wide range of issues including counterterrorism and national security matters. Prior to this, he was as an operative for the FBI, where he conducted national security field operations against...

DeepDotWeb, Wall St and Valhalla markets seized by authorities

By Uzair Amir Arrests have been made in Israel, Europe, Brazil, and the United States. The popular dark web news and index website DeepDotWeb DDW has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. Those visiting the website can see a message left by the FBI on its homepage stating that...

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity

The Department of Homeland Security DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have identified a malware variant—referred to as ELECTRICFISH—used by the North Korean government. The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government as HIDDEN COBRA. The...

A week in security (April 22 – 28)

Last week on Labs, we looked at security threats to headphones, privacy options in the world of law, and wandered through the FBI’s 2018 IC3 online crime report. We also explored another MageCart attack, and we released our 2019 Q1 Crime Tactics and Techniques report. Other cybersecurity news...

A look inside the FBI’s 2018 IC3 online crime report

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center have released their annual Crime Report, with the most recent release focusing on 2018. While the contents may not surprise, it definitely cements some of the bigger threats to consumers and businesses—and not all of them are particularly high tech...

FBI: BEC Scam Losses Almost Double To Reach $1.2 Billion

Business email compromise BEC scams are squeezing more money than ever out of victims, with losses from the attacks almost doubling year-over-year in 2018 to reach $1.2 billion. That’s according to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report IC3 for 2018, which records the number of complaints, losses...

WannaCry hero MalwareTech pleads guilty to writing banking malware

By Ryan De Souza MalwareTech is now facing 10 years in prison. In 2017, Marcus Hutchin who goes by the Twitter handle of MalwareTech halted the infamous WannaCry ransomware after registering its killswitch domain. As a result, Hutchin was hailed as WannaCry hero but in August the same year,...

Hackers post private data of thousands of Federal agents online

By Waqas The breach came after FBI-linked websites were hacked. Three websites belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's FBI National Academy Association FBINAA were hacked apparently by three hackers after they managed to breach their security, steal and upload data online. Part of the...

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity

The Department of Homeland Security DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have identified a Trojan malware variant—referred to as HOPLIGHT—used by the North Korean government. The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government as HIDDEN COBRA. The...

Elastic Kibana < 5.6.15, 6.x.x < 6.6.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities - Windows

Kibana is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only if description...